Entangled stories: the red Jews in premodern yiddish and german apocalyptic lore
“Far, far away from our areas, somewhere beyond the Mountains of Darkness, on the other side of the Sambatyon River…there lives a nation known as the Red Jews.” The Red Jews are best known from classic Yiddish writing, most notably from Mendele's Kitser masoes Binyomin hashlishi (The Brief Trav...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
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[2012]
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AJS review
Año: 2012, Volumen: 36, Número: 1, Páginas: 1-41 |
| (Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar: | B
Rojo
/ Judíos
/ Yídish
/ Alemán
/ Literatura
/ Judaísmo
/ Cristianismo
/ Polémica
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| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | BH Judaísmo |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Jewish peoples
B Folktales B Judaism B Christian History B Polemics B Allegory B Piyyut B Jewish History |
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| Sumario: | “Far, far away from our areas, somewhere beyond the Mountains of Darkness, on the other side of the Sambatyon River…there lives a nation known as the Red Jews.” The Red Jews are best known from classic Yiddish writing, most notably from Mendele's Kitser masoes Binyomin hashlishi (The Brief Travels of Benjamin the Third). This novel, first published in 1878, represents the initial appearance of the Red Jews in modern Yiddish literature. This comical travelogue describes the adventures of Benjamin, who sets off in search of the legendary Red Jews. But who are these Red Jews or, in Yiddish, di royte yidelekh? The term denotes the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, the ten tribes that in biblical times had composed the Northern Kingdom of Israel until they were exiled by the Assyrians in the eighth century BCE. Over time, the myth of their return emerged, and they were said to live in an uncharted location beyond the mysterious Sambatyon River, where they would remain until the Messiah's arrival at the end of time, when they would rejoin the rest of the Jewish people. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009412000013 |